Close to the End. Chapter 16 Vocab

English colonies along the Atlantic coastal regions. (p. 361) 

Region that stretched inland from Calcutta in India; previously controlled by the French then by the English. (p. 364)

Dutch settlers in Cape Colony; in southern Africa. (p. 364)

Headquarters of British East India Company in Bengal in Indian subcontinent; located on Ganges; captured in 1756 during early part of Seven Years War; later became administrative center for all of Bengal. (p. 364) 

Settlements in Canada launched by the French government; Had manorial estates set up with carefully restricted rights for great lords; France gained about 55,000 settlers in a durable peasanty society there. (p. 361) 

Dutch colony established at Cape of Good Hope in 1652 initially to provide a coastal station for the Dutch seaborne empire; by 1770 settlements had expanded sufficiently to come into conflict with Bantus. (p. 364) 

Southern tip of Africa; first circumnavigated in 1488 by Portuguese in search of direct route to India. (p. 351) 

Island gained by the British from the Dutch. (p. 365) 

Genoese captain in service of king and queen Castile and Aragon; successfully sailed to New World and returned in 1492; initiated European discoveries in Americas. (p. 351)

Biological and ecological exchange that took place following Spanish establishment of colonies in New World; peoples of Europe and Africa came to New World; animals, plants, and diseases of two hemispheres were transferred. (p. 416)